Jay Peters
See you in Springfield.
Epic Games gave creator NickEh30 an early look Fortnite’s next season, which is themed around The Simpsons and will launch after an in-game event tomorrow.
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The Netflix fantasy epic continues its downward spiral with a bloated and mostly boring new chapter.
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The end is nigh.
The fifth and final season of Stranger Things kicks off next month, and in the meantime Netflix has a very dramatic new trailer to get you in an Upside Down mood.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Paramount is laying off thousands of employees.
It has been two months since Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion, and — shocker — the newly merged megacorporation has already begun the process of laying off thousands of its workers. It’s almost like these big media consolidation deals invariably end up harming workers.
Paramount begins laying off 2,000 people months after Skydance merger
[The Washington Post]
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Breaking Bad creator is dabbling in sci-fi again, years after getting his start on The X-Files.
Andrew Webster
Jay Peters
The Simpsons’s Fortnite crossover starts soon.
Some kind of event is taking place on November 1st, and leaks from last week indicated that Homer, Marge, Bart, Ned Flanders, and Krusty the Clown might all appear in the game. El Barto has even defaced the header image for Fortnite’s X account.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Taylor Sheridan is switching sides in the streaming wars.
Taylor Sheridan — the architect of Paramount Skydance’s wildly successful Yellowstone franchise — has reportedly signed a massive film / TV deal with rival entertainment giant NBCUniversal. According to Puck, Sheridan’s move was prompted by his dissatisfaction with the way Paramount Skydance’s new head David Ellison has been running the company.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Pennywise is coming over for Halloween.
Rather than waiting for Sunday, HBO now plans to drop It: Welcome to Derry’s second episode on October 31st just in time for the end of spooky season.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
What’s going on with Apple TV’s The Savant?
Though Apple TV has had time for a surprise rebrand, the streamer still hasn’t released The Savant, its indefinitely postponed crime thriller about domestic terrorism. Apple’s site keeps changing to say that the show could debut “soon” or at some point in 2025. But with the year almost over, “soon” feels unlikely.
Is Jessica Chastain’s ‘The Savant’ Ever Going to Premiere?
[The Hollywood Reporter]
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Netflix is cooking up a Black Hole adaptation.
Deadline reports that Netflix has tapped I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun to write and direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’ comic, Black Hole. Like the comic, the new series will tell the story of a town where a virus turns sexually active teens into strange monsters.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Stop! GammaTime.
Bill Block, the former CEO of Miramax, has plans to build out his new micro-drama streaming platform called GammaTime thanks to a fresh round of funding from investors including Alexis Ohanian, Kris Jenner, and Kim Kardashian. Perhaps Quibi was just too ahead of its time.